Improvement in ticket-clips



cnitrd tant' AUSTIN B CULVER, 0F WESTFIEL'D, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 96,086, dated October 26, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN TICKET-CLIPS.

'.l'lzie` Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making partof the name.

To all 'who'n c't may conce/m proved ballot.

Figure 2 is a. transverse section of the same. Similar lettels ofreference indicate coiresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to protect and secure the purity of theelective franchise, by preventing fraudulent voting; and

The invention consists in providing a band around each ballot, in suchmanner that each ballot is kept separate, to prevent one voter fromintentionally or accidentally putting in two or more votes, or, rather,to detect such double voting, in case it should be performed.

The ballot A, when handed to an inspector, or other officer of election,by a voter, is to be enclosed by the said oiicial with a sheet-metal orother band, a, which will keep it separate, and prevent it frombecoming, in the urn, folded together with other ballots.

The sheet-metal band I prefer to make ofA lead, or`

other soit metal or material, which will readily bend` without breaking.

The party receiving the ballots should have a number of such metal orother strips, and should fold one around each ballot received, and thenput the same into the urn. Or the voter may be obliged to enclose eachballot in a band of the above construction for the same purpoce.

The ballots are, by this means, kept entirely sep# arated, so thatfraudulent voters cannot put two or more ballots into the urn at once,without its being detected, and the superuous votes rejected;

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The method abovedescribed of preventing fraudulent voting, namely, by enclosing theticket of each elector, as soon as presented, with aclip of soft metal,substantially as speciied.

AUSTIN B. OULVER.

Witnesses:

ALFRED S. PATTERSON, HARRISON W. BENSON.

